Just buy a new pc or a used one, put Linux Mint on it. You will be fine, and fairly quickly get over the "hump" of not knowing how to do anything
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Go with mint over pop? I was reading your article and for a mac feel looks like pop was the way. Do you recommend mint over the others? I know that are different flavors of Linux and I'm trying to cut my teeth on the non-technical noob friendly version. I honestly have no clue what I'm doing as should be obvious